Problem with franchising?

How are we supposed to trust the skill of franchised teams if they only play against other franchised teams?

What happens if ascension becomes more competitive than franchise?

PARLA is an example, I know a lot of the franchise teams they faced were still experimenting but you would expect them to still win

If Ascension becomes more skill then they ascend? That’s why it’s called ascension

i think thats the problem with the franchise system everywhere, in cs you have blastpremier with astralis yet they can't even win rmr againts random eu stack

there's ascension to count for that, in 2026 there'll be like 2 teams every year coming into the ascension so it's all g

players in franchised teams are skilled? a lot of them the same people we saw doing well prefranchise in vct, thats why they got to franchising? they are new teams still building chemistry and testing stuff, and they will still be praccing with not franchised teams, so if it turns out theyre shit the franchised orgs can replace the players, or they just go for ascension.

parla is an example of teams scrimming for a year will beat teams scrimming for 2 weeks. though yes parla is one of the best t2 teams in emea. but that doesnt mean teams like giants and vitality are very new

There will be always ascension teams who will beat franchise teams i don't think so we will ever see clear big gap between them

atleast in brazil the gap will be insanely bigger bc the franchised teams will move to NA and ascension teams wont be able to pracc against them
our region will be weaker and weaker year by year

this season ascension will be more entertaining in NA and EU for sure
i think in near 3 years tier2 scene will be a banger, then orgs will understand things and will buy tier2 teams each season

just they need to give 2 more slot to ascension

take akrew from a while back with the roster gucc107, neon, kanpeki, c0m, paincakes

they would win every single tier 2 tourney in na pretty much and earned the nickname akrewstralis

then when vct came around they didnt make it through in the first qualifier
c0m got picked up by eg and the rest of the roster played with a new fifth for the second qualifier where they didnt make it through once again
after kanpeki got picked up by sentinels

basically if a team is in ascension and is good the players will just get picked up by partnered teams who arent doing well and want to make roster changes
or the team stays together somehow without a single player getting poached and they win ascension

teams like this arent very common and it doesnt happen often that a tier 2 team is so dominant so 1 ascension spot + player getting poached should be enough for franchising to have the best talents at the time and stay better than most of the top ascension teams

ranks hold back the scene just like franchising

Esports was founded on freedom of movement in merit.

now it’s controlled just like corporate world where only friends get to the top.

but hey at least they auto ban “hate speech” in the game to keep people not bringing up the cronyism.

sad game

If a player pops off in ascension, a franchise team will probably just poach that player.

That is what ascension is for anyways. It's a talent feed into the franchise league. I doubt most teams that do well in ascention will stay together because as soon as 1 team performs well, an underperforming franchise team will pick their best player up and now you have a broken ascension team.

It's difficult for new orgs to get in (only 2 per fixed number of years) but players will be cycled continuously.

I'm 99% sure that is not going to happen. The franchised teams would have to get so lazy and not care about scouting new talent or winning at all. They have all the money leverage and prestige to attract any talent from ascension. If a promoted ascension team wins champs in the next 4 years Ill delete this account.

The good teams will ascend or have their players bought out